by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Penny Marshall's cause of death: Heart failure attributed to heart disease, diabetes

Penny Marshall, the widely-beloved actress turned acclaimed director of films

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

An American Aid Worker Is Being Monitored for Signs of Ebola at a Nebraska Hospital

An American medical worker in Africa may have had too close a brush with the deadly Ebola virus that is currently devastating the Democratic Republic of Congo. He returned to the U.S. and is now at a hospital in Nebraska, where doctors are keeping a...

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

This Is the Grip I Use For My Nintendo Switch

A fix for the Switch's handheld mode.

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Extreme meteorologist Reed Timmer recounts his top 5 storm chases of 2018

AccuWeather Extreme Meteorologist Reed Timmer recounts some of the year's most exciting chases and what it was like to experience the storms firsthand.

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Reed Timmer details the heart-pounding moments from 5 of his most extreme storm chases in 2018

AccuWeather Extreme Meteorologist Reed Timmer recounts some of the year's most exciting chases and what it was like to experience the storms firsthand.

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Taking the Doors Off a Jeep Wrangler Is a Damn Delight, and It Just Got Even Easier

The 2018 JL Wrangler makes it easy. But can you do the job in 20 minutes?

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Iran's Revolutionary Guards plan to upgrade speed boats with stealth technology

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Monday they plan to upgrade their speed boats in the Gulf with radar-evading stealth technology and new missile launchers as tensions rise between Tehran and Washington in the vital oil shipping route. Ending a lo...

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

The Most Promising Automotive Technologies for 2019

The future will be digitized, electrified, and heavily mapped.

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

What Was the First Recreational Drug?

Sex, war, and getting insanely high: Society might’ve changed in the last 60,000 years or so, but these interests have remained constant. In a way, this is a kind of golden age for the aspiring recreational drug user: putting aside the public health...

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Brain ‘pacemaker’ could prevent tremors and seizures for Parkinson’s and epilepsy sufferers

A ‘pacemaker’ for the brain is on the horizon to prevent people with Parkinson’s and epilepsy suffering from seizures and tremors. The device is made up of two tiny array of electrodes which sit inside the skull, and link to a circuit board on the si...

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Why You Should Never Ever Assemble Something With the Tools That Came in the Package

That wrench that came in the flat pack doesn't deserve to be called a wrench. Do yourself a favor and go grab your real tools.

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

1st large storm of 2019 to spread rain, ice and snow from Texas to New England late this week

The stormy pattern that began the final week of 2018 will continue into 2019 as the first major storm of the new year will spread a swath of rain, ice and snow from the southern Plains to the Northeast late this week.

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Jet lag and personality clashes: the unexpected obstacles to colonising Mars 

Interplanetary 'jet lag' and personality clashes could be the biggest obstacles to colonising Mars, British space experts have warned. Although scientists are still stumped about how to protect astronauts against space radiation, or the phy...

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Why Don't We Just Run Internal Combustion Engines on Hydrogen?

Hydrogen burns with zero emissions. Couldn't we just use it in place of gasoline? The answer is more complex than you might expect.

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Mysterious swamp cancer is killing Chincoteague ponies on Virginia island famous for them

The mysterious disease in Chincoteague killed three other ponies this year and two in 2017. It's a painful disease that covers ponies with lesions.